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When Zendaya made her first Oscars appearance in 2015, she wore faux locs with a white Vivienne Westwood gown. At the time, journalist Giuliana Rancic made a racist remark suggesting the hair>braids >some schools and institutions historically attempting to regulate or ban them. Seeing the pushback against these kinds of comments within Black Hollywood signals a broader cultural shift.
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